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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Philosopher
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New York City
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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.
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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
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We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.
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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
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We live in a description of reality.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!
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